Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When President Eisenhower and Premier Bulganin smilingly shook hands at the summit parley last July, the Soviets got a propaganda windfall. Pictures of the occasion were blown up to enormous size and placarded throughout Eastern Europe as "proof" that the U.S. had made friends with the Soviet Union and no longer had any interest in setting the satellites free. Last week, when newsmen sought another smiling picture, this time of Vyacheslav Molotov chumming up with John Foster Dulles, the Secretary of State said no. It was a challenge that no photographer could or would ignore...
Sheep never appear in this comedy, but Fernandel does, everywhere. In The Sheep Has Five Legs there is plentiful proof that the French are fertile and that Fernandel is versatile, for offspring abound, and all of them are Fernandel. Obviously designed solely to set off his virtuosity, the movie is merely a series of disconnected situations, which come off largely because of his personality and broadly smiling...
...proof that this theory is not mere cosmos-dreaming, Dr. Greenstein told about a group of red giant stars that contain very heavy elements and are still producing them abundantly. Dr. Fowler traced in detail the stellar nuclear reactions that build heavy elements, step by step, out of the original hydrogen...
Monstrous Analysis. Quarles is well aware that flying-saucer cultists are not easily discouraged. They might still claim that saucer-shaped aircraft built on earth are proof that extraterrestrial flying saucers, manned by little men from Venus (or Mars), have been infesting the atmosphere. So Quarles released simultaneously a massive "analysis of reports of unidentified aerial objects." Called Project Blue Book and bristling with charts, diagrams, data sheets and tables of figures, it is a meticulous study of 4,965 flying-saucer "sightings...
Menzel, who is Director of the College Observatory, also discussed previous theories of planetary origin and pointed up some of the obstacles which his theory tries to overcome. His theory attempts to describe a universe with many planets, although "We have no direct proof that any planets exist beyond our solar system...